August 21, 2018
For Ant Financial, IPO Was Here, Expected And Then Gone
In this case, perhaps IPO could stand for: “It’s Possible, Only…not now.” News came at the beginning of this week that the hotly anticipated listing of Ant Financial, an affiliate of China’s...
June 14, 2018
In IPO Debut, Adyen Valuation Jumps Nearly 90 Percent
The FinTech rally comes to the Street. Well, at least for one firm, which had an IPO this week – and that would be Adyen. The debut day for the...
June 12, 2018
B2B FinTech Could Earn Index Ventures $2 Billion This Year
Venture capitalist (VC) firm Index Ventures is on its way to earn $1.6 billion from its early investments in B2B FinTech, according to Forbes reports Monday (June 11). Index Ventures’...
June 05, 2018
Ant Financial Changes Focus To Technology Services
Amid China’s crackdown on financial risk, Ant Financial is moving away from consumer finance and payments. Instead, it is honing in on technology services, CNBC reported. The decision was partly...
May 24, 2018
Adyen Preps For IPO
Adyen, a Dutch payment processing company that counts Airbnb, Uber, Spotify and Netflix as customers, is gearing up to go public on the Amsterdam stock exchange in June. Reuters reported the company...
April 10, 2018
Adyen Prepares For Possible $11B IPO
Adyen, a Dutch payments processing company, is considering an IPO that could value it at 6-9 billion euros ($7-$11 billion). The company has offices around the world and serves more...
March 19, 2018
The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants
There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change. In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in...
March 12, 2018
Funding Circle Chooses Bank Partners For Record-Setting Float
Funding Circle has reportedly chosen the banks to help it go public, according to Bloomberg reports from Sunday (March 11). An unnamed source revealed that Bank of America Merrill Lynch,...
April 24, 2017
Ant Financial’s Great Mobile Payments Race
The most memorable thing that came out of the 1959 movie, A Hole in the Head, was its 1960 Oscar-winning song, “High Hopes,” sung by Frank Sinatra. If the song...